So as I sat here watching the Liverpool vs Fulham football match, some thoughts kept popping up inside my brain. For starters I have recently found myself actually making the effort to watch the games my beloved team plays and that I honestly enjoy watching them again, something that has rarely happened for about a year and a half now. The other thought that repeatedly showed its way in my mind was the idea of how important confidence is, and how massive the effects of having a massive amount of it can be.
Now I know that I’m not coming up with a mindblowingly new formula here but bear with me, it’s just something that’s on my mind right now.
In life we tend to be overly self conscious about ourselves. Fear of failure hinders us from going after the ultimate prize, whatever that may be. A man gets rejected by one woman and automatically assumes that he is destined to walk the earth as a lonely virgin who will never enjoy the company of a woman. A kid fails horribly at playing football but doesn’t stop to think that maybe he would make a decent basketball player. You get where I’m going with this…
The reason that this got stuck on my mind while watching the football match is because how important confidence is to getting the desired results. It becomes quite clear when you see a team get on a bad run where it seems that no matter what they do, they just can’t make it work. The striker who on a good day could score easily from 30 yards out can’t even knock it in from 10 yards, the goalie who would make the most breathtaking saves now conceits to making the silliest of mistakes. If your confidence levels are up you are more likely to try and get yourself in the situation where you have to take a chance, a chance that you are comfortable in taking. You’re not hiding behind other players, your excuses or thinking to yourself that it obviously wasn’t meant to be. A confident man takes chances and prospers from them.
My goal for the year is to be more positive, find what I don’t like about me and instead of letting it affect me, fix it, make sure that I like me, which is the important thing. If you don’t like you then no one else will like you either.
The title btw is a reference to a title of a film starring Christian Slater, it’s a good one so check it out
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